Police plan to extend the use of stop-and-search powers across London to prevent future protests descending into the chaos that caused tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage on Saturday, The Times has learnt. Scotland Yard is also looking at increasing the use of “intervention points”, where

Scotland Yard is expected to face severe criticism in a high-level review of its conduct of the Night Stalker investigation and other cases of serial sex attackers. The Times understands that HM Inspectorate of Constabulary is close to completing a report on Metropolitan Police failings in the

Police are to use Twitter and other social networking sites to monitor tens of thousands of people who are descending on London today to protest against public spending cuts. Up to 250,000 people are expected to join the rally, organised by the TUC, which is likely to be the largest in the capital

A deputy chief constable who was being investigated for allegedly making sexist remarks to colleagues has been found dead at his home. David Ainsworth, 49, who worked for Wiltshire Police, was under investigation by South Wales Police over an “internal staff issue”. He is thought to have committed

Kenneth Noye lost an appeal yesterday against his conviction for murdering Stephen Cameron in a road rage incident in 1996. Noye, 63, killed Mr Cameron, 21, an electrician, with a knife in front of his fiancée during a fight on a M25 slip road in Swanley, Kent, before fleeing abroad. He was

Some of the world’s most secretive offshore banks are to allow the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to examine their customers’ private statements as investigators widen their inquiry into the collapse of an Icelandic bank. The global investigation into any role played by the billionaire brothers Robert

Sixty British children have been saved from sex abusers after the “biggest-ever” paedophile network of up to 70,000 members worldwide was smashed. Police officers, teachers, driving instructors and scout leaders are among the 121 child sex suspects arrested so far from among 1,200 British members

A key company in Vincent Tchenguiz’s business empire has slumped to a £43 million loss, heaping further pressure on the property tycoon at the centre of a multi-billion-pound fraud inquiry. Vincos, a company which provides administrative services to the Tchenguiz Family Trust, reported the large

A policeman is under investigation after his own recording equipment allegedly captured him trying to collude with colleagues to arrest a student protester on “false grounds” during violent demonstrations last year. The 20-year-old student breached a police cordon in Parliament Square, London, on

The Crown Prosecution Service and Scotland Yard are to carry out a review of the “supergrass” system following the collapse last week of a murder case that cost the taxpayer more than £40 million. The failure of the investigation into the death of Daniel Morgan, a private detective who was killed